The Micrometastasis Project at the Norwegian Radium Hospital
Aims:
- Increase our biological understanding of circulating tumour cells
- Provide clinical information about occurrence and characterization of cells for clinical treatment
- Improve diagnostics, develop and implement new technologies, characterization and quantification
- Participate in international standardisation program
- Compare various diagnostic methods
- Search for genes of importance in the metastatic process
Jahn Martin Nesland, leader
Trine Bjøro
Øyvind Bruland
Karl-Erik Giercksky
Bjørn Naume
Claes Tropé